Find startup ideas people already want

Guesswork is an entrepreneur’s most expensive enemy.

Alex spent four months vibe coding her shoe-selling marketplace app.

Paid a dev to debug and polish the UI. Got a friend to write all the copy. Used ChatGPT to set up payments.

Launch day hits. Then... nothing.

No signups. No sales. No traction.

Classic mistake. Build first, validate never. Alex learned the expensive way.

That’s why more founders are using AI to turn internet conversations and search trends into validated business opportunities.

Let's explore what this means for internet entrepreneurs.

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The guessing game exists because traditional idea validation takes forever.

Builders spend weeks scrolling Reddit for pain points.

Months researching competitor landscapes.

More weeks building surveys nobody fills out.

By the time they validate an idea, their attention has moved on with the market.

AI idea generation compresses those months and weeks into hours.

Instead of hunting for problems manually, AI validates trends, demand, and traffic for you.

It finds threads where people complain about unsolved problems.

It matches complaints with search volume data to confirm market size.

It even identifies gaps where existing solutions fail customers.

AI scans thousands of social signals daily to surface these opportunities.

34% of startups fail because there's no market need for their product.

AI idea generation attacks this problem by showing you what people already want.

Real people, real problems, and quantifiable demand.

The "build it and they will come" era is over.

The “know before you build” arbitrage is here.

< TOOL: >

Ideabrowser

Use case : AI-powered idea discovery and validation using social signals and search data

Key advantages :

→ Aggregates signals from Reddit, Google Trends, and consumer conversations

→ Ranks ideas by profitability potential, growth trends, & market pain

→ Rates the difficulty level and suggests MVP scope for each idea

Best for : Solo operators stuck in ideation who need validated opportunities, not more app ideas.

Price : Free to browse. Pro plans start at $299/yr.

Ideabrowser turns internet noise into startup signal.

It replaces hours of Reddit scrolling, competitor research, and spreadsheet tracking with signal-rich opportunities you can sort by trend velocity, category, and founder fit.

Instead of hunting for problems, you get signal-rich ideas delivered daily.

This is your idea engine.

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Empire members get 1 month + 50% off all plans (up to $500 saving). Unlock Ideabrowser + tactical advice from 600+ internet entrepreneurs.

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Let’s get cooking.

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1) Mine online communities for pain points

What: Use AI to surface problems real people are complaining about on public forums.

Why: Every startup idea starts with a problem. But too many builders look inward. Brainstorms, sticky notes, personal hunches. The best opportunities are hiding in public.

How:

Go to Ideabrowser.com to see today’s idea of the day

Click into the community signals breakdown and skim the Reddit threads for complaints

Look for patterns: recurring frustrations, failed workarounds, and people saying "I wish there was a better way”

Tip: Filter by industry or theme to mine niches you understand. Signal is most valuable when you can build on it before the conversation moves on.

Watch Greg’s 6-minute Ideabrowser demo to see how he uses it to extract startup ideas from Reddit.

2) Validate demand with search + trend signals

What: Cross-reference pain-points with search volume and trend data to confirm demand.

Why: Community complaints don't guarantee market size. Search volume and trend data indicate the number of people actively seeking solutions. Data tells you if that interest is growing, flatlining, or fading fast.

How:

In Ideabrowser, click into the Keyword Analysis

Look for 6+ months of consistent growth or recent spikes in search volume.

Toggle the related keywords to compare search volume and understand the full market size

Tip: Chase rising problems, not popular ones. Rising means unsolved. That’s early-mover territory.

Check out this Google Trends analysis guide to better understand trendlines and spot duds from the real deal.

3) Discover gaps in existing markets

What: Find underserved niches where competitors are failing customers.

Why: Validated demand means competition exists. But their solutions have cracks – clunky UX, missing features, terrible pricing, or bad customer service. These gaps are your entry points.

How:

In Ideabrowser, click into the Market Gap Analysis

Scan through outlined gaps and note the opportunity ratings

Match the gaps with the pain points you highlighted

Pick the gap that matches their pain + your skills

Tip: Don’t chase every gap you find. Prioritize one or two areas where you can build quickly and the value gap is huge.

You can skip the manual work and get IdeaBrowser’s AI Agent to surface the best gaps for you.

< TLDR: >

→ Startups fail because they solve problems no one’s searching for.

→ Ideabrowser finds the problems people are searching for and talking about.

→ Use AI to find demand, validate ideas, and skip months of guessing.

Building products nobody wants is expensive. Building products people are already asking for is profitable. Sounds simple, but it’s worth repeating.

Mine the signal. Validate the demand. Find your gap.

Here's to building what the market wants,

~ Max

SE team

PS... Empire members get Ideabrowser free for one month + 50% off all plans to help them find and build ideas faster. Less guesswork because the system works.

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